Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring

WerewolfOfVulcan writes "Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some very interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images broadcast in the mass media. Analysis shows that they're heavily manipulated, a discussion meant to illustrate a new technique that can spot forgery in digital media. 'Krawetz was ... able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners ... were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says.'"

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Re:msm

[CreatureComfort]

Your powers of self-delusion and self-contradiction are truly impressive.

If you can sit there and in a few moments think of these things on your own, why in the world do you think the 'enemies' can't do it? I am sure that the 'enemies' have people just as sophisticated and intelligent as you. Digitally altering video backgrounds proves that. Many of them are probably /. regulars, and many are educated in western colleges. The press making a comment is not going to be the tip off to them on how to use technology to deceive you.

But, then, in your own post, you propose several very good ideas that an unsophisticated enemy might not have thought of, and that were never mentioned, or certainly not to the detail you went into, in any press story I've seen. And then have the gall to lambast the press for aiding the enemy, when your own post would be far more helpful to a lurking al-quaida member!

You sir, are a true piece of work.

Re:All the Images are Disinfo / PsyOps

[Maelwryth]

My first thought was why would they do this as well. It is far more likely to have been western interests that doctored the images. It is the same mindset as people who rail against Bush. They completely miss the point that Bush was put there for that reason so people wouldn't look behind the scene's at those controlling the country.

WTF?

[normuser]

It won't work. If just having the means to prove something were actually enough to convince the faithful... well, how do you explain the southern USA?

It's not just a jab at the fine bible-thumping guys and gals down there, though. It happens the same everywhere. Europe had its own counter-enlightenment movement, waaaay back. As in, a couple of centuries back. That's really what happens when you assault someone's beliefs hard enough: he'll just switch to block-head mode.

How the fuck did this blatant troll get modded +5 Insightful?
Why dont you come on down south and I`ll show you "block-head mode".